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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?
(a) Fortune telling.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Tattooing.
(d) Taking in wash.

2. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Admirable.

3. What did Hemyng call a soldier who was supported by a wealthy woman?
(a) A fool.
(b) A pariah.
(c) A male prostitute.
(d) A gigolo.

4. What is another word that Mayhew called puppeteers?
(a) Punch.
(b) Geppettos.
(c) Stringers.
(d) Pups.

5. What did Hemyng define as prostitution?
(a) Only if a man pays for sex.
(b) Only if a woman accepting money for sex.
(c) A woman having sex with anyone except her husband.
(d) Only when two people who do not know each other have sex.

6. What have many tried to do according to the narrator?
(a) Justify their criminal behavior.
(b) Stay honest even when starving.
(c) Do nothing.
(d) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.

7. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(b) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(c) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.
(d) Kill a cobra with his teeth.

8. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?
(a) On the particular street corner that he rents and pays taxes to the city.
(b) Mostly along the boardwalk that runs along the Thames River.
(c) In an auditorium or theater.
(d) In the streets, at private parties, and at birthday parties for the children of noblemen.

9. How many prostitutes did the police estimate work in London?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 7-8000.
(c) 2-3000.
(d) 18-25,000.

10. What happened to the young girl lured from home?
(a) She managed to escape and seeks refuge in a church.
(b) She quickly died of veneral disease.
(c) She encountered Hemyng who rescues her.
(d) She was never heard from again.

11. What were the street folk families like?
(a) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.
(b) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.
(c) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.
(d) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.

12. Where was the fire eater educated?
(a) He has no education to speak of and cannot read or write.
(b) In private schools.
(c) In three years of the public schools.
(d) On the streets.

13. What did some people who was physically and mentally able to work do?
(a) Give to those less fortunate.
(b) Answer to a higher calling.
(c) No work.
(d) Take care of others but not themselves.

14. What does Mayhew say about the photographer's business?
(a) He was a lousy businessman, often giving free pictures to the children.
(b) He was the most honest photographer in the district.
(c) He was an excellent photographer.
(d) Most of it was a scam.

15. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.
(b) A former gentleman's footman.
(c) His own cousin.
(d) His own brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many civil servants does he cite?

2. For whom did the street clown work for before becoming a clown?

3. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

4. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?

5. What does Mayhew say humans must do?

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